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MAKE pal Scott Moschella has a good round up of how to make animated GIFs using fee and free tools. The video to image to GIMP tip is really handy if you’re a GIMP user. Link.

Wow, even the lamps and teapots are made from origami…Origami House exhibition opened on March 5th at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia. A culmination of many months of planning, hard work folding, fun and many late nights, the show opened quietly and has only begun to awe visitors to the gallery. [via] Link.

Awesome covers for your iPod- Choose a picture for your cover. Bold images work best. It could be a picture you already have on your iPod, a favourite photo, a name or an iconic image. They then convert your picture into a stitch pattern. Stitch patterns are made up of around 20,000 – 30,000 stitches, depending on size and the number of colours needed to reproduce your design. [via] Link.

A tablet PC replaces the sketchbook for one caricature artist in London’s Leicester Square…for one day Emil has swapped his notebook and charcoal for a tablet PC. And instead of sending tourists on their way clutching their caricature on paper, he is emailing them out via a wireless net connection. [via] Link.

Wow, these PC case mods are amazing- they’re modeled after anime characters, robots and more. It looks like a lot of these are first framed out with PVC and then foam is sculpted on top of that. Link.

2600 publisher Emmanuel has a great online journal of his travels for the next couple months…The idea is to travel from New York to New York by circumnavigating the globe without making use of air travel. Hence the QM2. Along the way, I’ll be working on the latest 2600 Films project..He’s recording the audio shows from the ship and uploading from sea, the journal entries are a great read too. Link.

MAKE pal Natalie Zee has an awesome article on making your own phone trinkets and dangly things…if you aren’t into Hello Kitty or any of those cutesy characters, there is a more affordable alternative. As I started to use my phone more with the attached Chanel strap, I realized that this was something I could totally make myself. Women make jewelry all the time, why not cellphone jewelry? Link. Bonus link: The Flickr photo set.